RI Seminar
Dinesh Manocha
Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Velocity-Space Approaches for Multi-agent Motion Planning and Crowd Simulations

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Dinesh Manocha is currently the Phi Delta Theta/Mason Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has co-authored than 330 papers in the leading conferences and journals on computer graphics, robotics, and scientific computing. He has also served program chair for many conferences and [...]

RI Seminar
Andrea Thomaz
Georgia Tech

Designing Learning Interactions for Robots

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Andrea L. Thomaz is an Assistant Professor of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She directs the Socially Intelligent Machines lab, which is affiliated with the Robotics and Intelligent Machines (RIM) Center and with the Graphics Visualization and Usability (GVU) Center. She earned a B.S. in Electrical and Computer [...]

RI Seminar
Michael Gazarik
NASA

NASA & Robotics: investing in America’s Future

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Dr. Michael Gazarik serves as Associate Administrator of the Space Technology Mission Directorate. As Associate Administrator, he manages and executes the Space Technology programs, focusing on infusion into the Agency’s exploration and science mission needs, proving the capabilities needed by the greater aerospace community, and developing the Nation’s innovation economy. Prior [...]

RI Seminar
Dan Stilwell
ECE Department, Virginia Tech

Think global, act local: challenges for autonomy in a tropical riverine system

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Dr. Dan Stilwell is a Professor in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia. He earned a PhD in electrical engineering at Johns Hopkins University in 1999, the MS from Virginia Tech in 1993, and the BS from the University of Massachusetts in 1991. His [...]

RI Seminar
Gregory D. Hager
Professor and Chair of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University and the Deputy Director of the NSF Engineering Research Center for Computer Integr
Johns Hopkins University

Computational Modelling and Enhancement of Human Skill: Toward Effective Human-Machine Collaborative Systems

Event Location: 1305 Newell-Simon HallBio: Gregory D. Hager is a Professor and Chair of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University and the Deputy Director of the NSF Engineering Research Center for Computer Integrated Surgical Systems and Technology. His research interests include time-series analysis of image data, image-guided robotics, medical applications of image analysis and robotics, [...]

RI Seminar
Ayanna Howard
Motorola Foundation Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Chair, Robotics PhD Program
Georgia Tech

Robots in Play: Human-Robot Interaction Schemes for Pediatric Therapy

Event Location: 1305 Newell-Simon HallBio: Ayanna Howard is the Motorola Foundation Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She received her B.S. from Brown University, her M.S.E.E. from the University of Southern California, and her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California in 1999. [...]

RI Seminar
Deva Ramanan
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science, University of California at Irvine

Recognizing objects using model-based statistics

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Deva Ramanan is an associate professor of Computer Science at the University of California at Irvine. Prior to joining UCI, he was a Research Assistant Professor at the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago. He received his B.S. in computer engineering from the University of Delaware in 2000, graduating summa cum laude. [...]

RI Seminar
Ko Nishino
Associate Professor
Dept. of Computer Science, College of Engineering, Drexel University

Visual Material Recognition

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Ko Nishino is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at Drexel University. He received a B.E. and an M.E. in Information and Communication Engineering in 1997 and 1999, respectively, and a PhD in Computer Science in 2002, all from The University of Tokyo. Before joining Drexel University in [...]

RI Seminar
Shoji Tominaga
Chiba University, Japan

Special Joint RI/VASC Seminar

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Shoji TOMINAGA is a professor at Graduate School of Advanced Integration Science, Chiba University. His research interests include color imaging, illuminant estimation, multispectral image analysis, and color image rendering. He is an editorial board member of Color Research and Application, an associate editor of the Journal of Electronic Imaging, an executive [...]

RI Seminar
Eric N. Johnson
Lockheed Martin Associate Professor of Avionics Integration
Georgia Institute of Technology

Navigation, Guidance, and Adaptive Control Innovations for Unmanned Aircraft

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Eric N. Johnson (eric.johnson@ae.gatech.edu) is the Lockheed Martin Associate Professor of Avionics Integration, Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Tech. He received a B.S. degree from University of Washington, M.S. degrees from MIT and The George Washington University, and a Ph.D. from Georgia Tech, all in Aerospace Engineering. He also [...]